Sascha Gabriel's Blog: Thoughts From The Dark Side

Update on Calling all Artists! Also a GIVEAWAY and reviewers option!

Loving the story artwork I've had so far for the e:book :D a BIG thank you to Virelai, Ian from Violet night and Ian Campbell Thomas for their fantastic submissions! :D

I’m also looking forward to seeing what Mikee Gallagher Jemima Warspite Susan Stone Phexxie Bizarre Andy Cashman Dave Kurokult and Wagner Augusto from dA are going to come up with, too :D.

If there are any other artists out there that would like to help me our please inbox me or leave a response on this note, cheers, subs deadline is 27th October as we want to publish before All Hallows Eve and release it for general reading/buying on that day :) There are still about 10 stories that still need frontispieces, so all creative types who make art/digital art/ photography etc etc DO get in touch…


We’re offering a LIMITED number of FREE copies to reviewers too.
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"Due to popular demand, I have decided to edit the first volume of my short story anthology (dark fantasy/ science fiction/fantasy/cyberpunk/ past and futureshock) that I used to sell independently as a paperback, and put it out there as an e:book, in between writing my new novel. The stories need a frontispiece as the ones I had are either missing or I'd like new ones. Preferably in black and white/pen and ink style as the stories are kinda bleak but colour /digital art is also fine. Anyone interested? I will send you a PDF of the story breakdown and you can choose one (or more!) that fits your style). Then I'll send you the PDF of those stories. You keep the copyrights. Original work only thanks, else I'll get into trouble! Full credits and a copy of the book for FREE shall be your fee and when I'm rich you shall have a stipend. (Hehe.) The temporary/sample cover design is this (see below) but any offers to do me a better one much appreciated!"

I have about half of the stories covered, there are 20 in total, but all subs welcome.

Back cover blurb:
“Twenty stories from the dark side…

Tales starting in the distant past, from ancient magic in Mesopotamia and a refugee from Thrace with a terrible secret, and the story of a terminally ill little boy in more modern times who wishes that someone would visit him to a set of short stories all set in future-Earth that start in the close future, where the cracks are already beginning to show, to the far flung future where the earth has been killed by forces unknown and he people live far underground…but while the world has changed, so many of the people are still the same self seeking, grasping, intolerant fools they so often were before the Cataclysm came…and those who are different, through no fault of their own, have a hard row to hoe…

And much more…

Includes a preview of the new novel ‘Sanction’, the first of a dark science fiction fantasy cyberpunk tale of a galaxy where nothing is as it seems…

SCIENCE FANTASY/FUTURESHOCK.
”

Do you have eyes? And fingers or other appendages to click on stuff? Are books with words in, a thing you do? (I hope to do an audiobook too, for those that prefer that format)

If so you might want to add my e:book to your collection' 'Tears Of Ariel I'.

To be released on All Hallows Eve, it's an 150+ page anthology ( for ages 16 and over) of my- dark science fantasy fiction/ space opera/ cyberpunk/ futureshock/ post apocalyptic/ snatches of the past hammered into new forms- short stories, previously published in some well known underground 'zines, and also originally in a limited edition paperback run of 500.

There will also be some damned cool artists featured, with THEIR take on my work, for each story! :D

I AM GIVING AWAY TEN COPIES of it, and for the WHOLE of All Hallow's Eve, it will be available at the special REDUCED price of 99p! :O the first TEN people to inbox me here with the code

6 INANNA 6

(and bear in mind this offer will be put on ALL the sites I network on) will get the freebie!

If you're too late for the FREE offer but inbox me, then you qualify for the 99p offer even BEFORE All Hallow's Eve! :O :O

AND you will be entered for my 24 hour FREE NOVEL GIVEAWAY for 'Sanction' the first of a trilogy set in the far future, which should be ready for release at Yule! :D

All the winners will be listed below- PLEASE SHARE and invite others, to pass on the good news! :D Thank you! :D

http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqk...Tears of Ariel

Calling All Artists?

If you are or know of any artists- pen and ink and/or digital art- who would like to contribute to this...do inbox me!

Since I raised the idea of reissuing my anthologies Tears Of Ariel, I've already had a lot of interest!

So I have decided to edit the first volume of my short story anthology (dark fantasy/ science fiction/fantasy/cyberpunk/ past and futureshock) that I used to sell independently as a paperback, and put it out there as an e:book, in between writing my new novel. The stories need a frontispiece as the ones I had are either missing or I'd like new ones. Preferably in black and white/pen and ink style as the stories are kinda bleak but colour /digital art is also fine. Anyone interested? I will send you a PDF of the story breakdown and you can choose one (or more!) that fits your style). Then I'll send you the PDF of those stories. You keep the copyrights. Original work only thanks, else I'll get into trouble!

Full credits and a copy of the book for FREE shall be your fee and when I'm rich you shall have a stipend. The temporary/sample cover design is this (see below) but any offers to do me a better one much appreciated!

(18+ artists only thanks, looking for about 20 contributors, some stories are already taken).Tears Of Ariel